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Individual Contribution

APD welcomes you to participate in our programmes and initiatives, leverage your special skills, work with our students and trainees – find your own unique way to become a part of the growing APD family.

Our volunteering options can be categorized as:

Skill Based: Skilled volunteers can help us on a wide variety of projects from creating marketing materials to programme development, from staff and beneficiary training to application development. There is a requirement to match every skill!!

Programme Based: If you are looking to drive and achieve quick and tangible results, you can get involved in short term Community Based Programmes here in Bangalore or in any of our work districts.

Event Based: APD conducts several events during the year with children, trainees, staff, parents and persons in the community. Volunteers can participate, plan and manage events, photograph and document them or mobilize resources.

Here are just a few of the ways in which you can help a person with disability:

Teach students in our Shradhanjali Integrated School:

English, Mathematics or other subjects to primary classes. Not just knowledge of the subject, this calls for patience and affection for the children!

Basic Science & Mathematics to children from classes IV through VII.

Music, dramatics, dance & painting to all our students

Teach trainees in our Vocational Training Centre:

English Language Communication & Soft Skills to our trainees in the 17-23 year age band. These trainees are mainly from small town or rural backgrounds and need language skills and personality development training to help them adapt to the general work culture.

IT skills ranging from basic office applications to graphic design.

Other areas where you can contribute:

Counsel students, staff, parents and persons in the community.

Co-ordinate and manage community programs along with our staff and ensure deliverables as per plan.

Accompany our children/trainees on exposure visits and field trips in and around Bangalore

Create visibility and participate in fundraising activities. Support us as we work on marketing plans, communication packages and events. Set yourself monthly targets for fundraising and mobilize resources through your network.

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Our Projects

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT PROJECT

About 44% of people with disabilities are women. They have limited opportunities and are denied most of their basic rights. The Horticulture Training Center at APD has worked with and trained several people to manage women with disabilities.

TRAINING ON SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE LIVELIHOOD

CAPACITY BUILDING

APD recognizes that the size and complexity, not to mention the urgency, of the challenge of rehabilitating millions of people with disabilities spread across the country, is too large for any one organization.

RESOURCE SUPPORT TO ORGANIZATIONS

ADVOCACY

APD’s Urban Advocacy work in Bengaluru and municipalities of Kolar, Bagalkot, Chikkaballapur and Bidar includes helping people claim rightful benefits under the laws of education, livelihood, mobility assistance, transport concessions and housing schemes.

THERAPY – DISTRICT & INSTITUTIONAL

DISTRICT LIVELIHOOD

In Karnataka, an estimated 7.2 lakh youth with disabilities in the age group 16 to 35, with no employable skills or relevant education, require livelihood support to ensure a life of independence and self sufficiency.

SCHOOL SUPPORT PROGRAM

Bangalore Urban has a very high drop-Out rate of Children with Disability from mainstream schools. Sarva Siksha Abhyan (SSA) estimates a mere 25% of those who start out in Class I, stay on in school, till Class X.

EMPLOYMENT LED TRAINING COURSE

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING CENTER

The APD Industrial Training Centre offers vocational training programmes recognized by the NCVT (National Council of Vocational Training) scheme of the Department of Employment and Training, Government of India.

MAINSTREAM EDUCATION AND MODEL SCHOOLS

EARLY INTERVENTION

APD’s Early Intervention Program aims to identify disability and malnutrition at the initial stages and provide suitable aids and a holistic treatment. This is to ensure that children reach their maximum potential for development in these early years.

COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTERS

SHRADHANJALI INTEGRATED SCHOOL (SIS)

Shradhanjali Integrated School, founded in 1973, is a recognized primary school up to Class VII under the SSLC Board, with a capacity to educate up to 200 children. The school maintains an 80:20 ratio of children with disabilities and the non-disabled to promote inclusion.

CAREER GUIDANCE & PLACEMENT

APD aims at ensuring inclusive growth, skills development initiatives are being undertaken across various sectors, to meet the demand for skilled manpower by training youth in short term courses including soft skills.

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM

In the last 10 years, we have reached out to almost 2000 people with mental illness through targeted activities like identification, providing access to mental health care and social & economic rehabilitation.

ORTHOTICS & WHEELCHAIR SERVICES

APD’s Assistive Devices unit has been producing custom aids and appliances, since 1982, to meet the emerging needs of persons with disability. About 3000 PWDs assessed by the internal therapy unit or identified in rural or special orthopaedic camps, are provided each year.

SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI)

APD is the only organisation which has various comprehensive, structured and community-based programs for people with spinal cord injuries (PSCI). Currently, we have the capacity to annually rehabilitate 360 people suffering with SCI

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About APD

The Association for People with Disability (APD) is a non-profit organization based out of Bangalore. Founded in 1959, we have worked extensively over the last 55 years to reach out and rehabilitate People with Disability from the under privileged segment.